So I recently bought one of those Wacom pen tablets. I really wish I would have done it sooner. It has been so much fun playing with this thing! I love how I can make really awesome looking brush strokes on a digital canvas. It’s totally wild. Now I do have the advantage of using photoshop CS5′s new Mixer brushes, and I have to say I’m totally amazed by how great they look. Honestly it’s like painting with a real brush in your hand. It does take a little getting use to with the whole hand eye coordination of making strokes on something below the screen while watching it happen on your monitor. Sadly I’ve been too busy playing with digital painting to try my hand at some really cool dodging and burning. Using pressure sensitivity on a pen to simulate exposure up and down is going to be really cool, I just don’t have any shots in my library that I really want to do that with.
Posts Tagged ‘Texture’
Denver Photographer { New Photoshop Mixer Brushes }
June 26, 2010Using Texture in Photographs { Denver Photographer }
June 13, 2010I know this isn’t my usual engagement photography posts. I’ve been doing a lot of personal projects lately. Like I said in my last post, I’m really trying to expand my photography, or in this case get back to something I love in photography….. Textures. When I first started doing digital photography all I ever used was textures. I didn’t have a nice enough camera to actually pull off good shots so I had to mask my poor shots with lots of textures. In reality this actually works pretty well. If you look at programs like hipstamatic for the Iphone, it takes “great” shots. Because the Iphone has such a poor camera, you can cover all that up with some texture and a bit of cross processing. I think that’s why photographs taken on an Iphone and then treated with either texture, cross processing, or vignette’s look so much better. They give them an artsy retro feel that everyone loves. Hence with an Iphone and hipstamatic you can make it look like you take really creative artsy shots.
I can’t believe how inspired I’ve felt lately. Not only to create amazing portraits, but also to do some abstract work, which I haven’t done much of lately. I’m finally starting to get more free time, and feel less stressed out at work, and thusly my photography prospers because of it. I love creating, and it can be especially fun with abstracts when you have such a blank canvas it becomes difficult to find focal points, and put meaning into shots. So instead I just try and make them look cool. Just kidding. Even with my abstract shots I try and put “emotion” into them. I realize that my abstract photography might not always have that “emotion” in it, or that other people might not see it, but I do. Most of the time. Although sometimes I do just like it because it looks cool.
Denver Photographer { Abstract Location Scouting }
May 24, 2010I know it’s rare that I put up something so abstract on my blog, but every once in a while I see an abstract shot that I really enjoy. This is one of those cases. I rarely do abstract photography anymore. I’m far too busy doing portrait photography, which is really my main passion. But when I first got into photography I did a lot more abstract photography than portraits. I mean honestly how many times can you take a picture of your friends before they start to get annoyed.
Denver Engagement Photography {Carrie + Matt}
August 12, 2009
First off if you’re looking for an engagement photographer take a look at my engagement photography portfolio.
So I had a another engagement shoot with a couple transported to Denver from Pittsburgh. Say hi to Carrie and Matt. They were a great couple to work with, and we had a ton of fun walking around Denver taking some nice relaxed candids. They are planning their whole wedding here in Denver, while the actual wedding is going to be in Pittsburgh. Imagine how hard that would be. They fly back every couple of weeks, and have a whirlwind of things to get done. 20 minutes for this, 15 minutes for that. It’s got to be hard. Good thing they are both so easy going.




